NO ONE would recall name and password after SIX years, nor lurk that long with account handy.

Here's another too ODD to be true: yankinwaoz: 100 (a nice even 10 comments per year), with 18 and 40 month gaps! (Also changed screen name around then.) From 27 Feb 2007 https://www.techdirt.com/user/yankinwaoz

** THREE MAKES CERTAINTY. If you don't now suspect that many of the comments here are zombie sock-puppets, you ARE one!**]]>Re: Re: Heh, heh! BEST BIT of subtle satire here in a long time!https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170816/22241738014/eff-pioneer-awards-chelsea-manning-annie-game-me.shtml#c239
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:53:05 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170816/22241738014/eff-pioneer-awards-chelsea-manning-annie-game-me.shtml#c239Re: Re: Re: Re: employershttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2895
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:43:01 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2895Not literally, with whips 'n stuff, but give them time as I'm sure they have considered using whips to get those burgers done faster.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: employershttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2880
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:40:20 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2880I think it was pretty obvious a long time ago that many employers do not give a shit about those they employ. And guess what, they don't have to.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm just saying...fuck Nazishttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2876
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:35:29 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2876Hahahaha - good one]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2858
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:31:56 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2858Never]]>Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/10434038003/wall-street-merger-mania-is-driving-us-toward-one-single-horrible-isp-probably-named-comcast.shtml#c297
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:28:33 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/10434038003/wall-street-merger-mania-is-driving-us-toward-one-single-horrible-isp-probably-named-comcast.shtml#c297

Should taxpayers be paying to wiire up every home and then inviting ISPs to fight it out beyond the last mile?

No, because then you'd have people saying: "I don't want my tax dollars going to my neighbor's porn / gaming / streaming / etc." (Basically everyone has a hatred of something that someone else likes, and many will use the "co-payment" situation to be an asshole. That's human nature.) Or someone will want to require censorship because they are paying for it, etc.

The correct thing to do in any Capitalist society is to realize that left to it's own devices, (1. Everyone in an economy will act responsibly. (Disinformation and ignorance prohibit that.) 2. Buy low sell high. (Greed, need I say more?) 3. If they can't pay your price, you don't sell, period. (Apathy.) Etc.) Capitalism will devolve to either Corporatism or Anarchy. At the very least, Capitalism will devolve to the point of being only beneficial to the few individuals wealthy / powerful enough to keep everyone else from doing so.

Therefore to avoid collapsing the system that governs your resources, there has to be meaningful limits on it's participants. Those limits must be made so that no one participant becomes too powerful and a determent to society. Nor a risk to the economy as a whole. If these limits are violated, then society must act to restore balance to the system, and hand down punishment on the violators to ensure they will not consider their violation a valid business strategy in the future.

The US has failed to do this as a society. That's the reason for the mega mergers, the massive layoffs / offshoring, and severe income inequality. The US has also failed to enforce any restrictions for so long that their entire legal system is now 100% beholden to these bad actors. Which makes any attempt at reversing the damage caused by these bad actors near impossible short of armed conflict. (They own the government, as such they can change the rules that would make it easier to fix the problem. Or create new impediments.)

Sadly, I'm not sure what the answer is at this point beyond attempting to increase awareness of the issue. But the root issue is much bigger than a group of companies fighting over a utility pole.

]]>Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2841
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:19:46 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2841Is publishing pictures DOXXing? If so, our news media will have to change their methods of reporting. They could hire sketch artists to draw the thing they would like to show you on tv but can not due to the potential for DSOXXing someone in the crowd. Possibly someone cheating on their spouse, ditching school ... you get the idea. I doubt the police will be forced to use sketch artists though, they will be given qualified immunity from DOXXing charges due to their copcam.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2835
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:01:09 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/09314538001/one-twitter-accounts-mission-to-make-white-supremacists-very-very-famous.shtml#c2835Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: At the heart of Techdirt there is a liehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170812/01102937985/once-again-rather-than-deleting-terrorist-propaganda-youtube-deletes-evidence-war-crimes.shtml#c1008
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:58:05 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170812/01102937985/once-again-rather-than-deleting-terrorist-propaganda-youtube-deletes-evidence-war-crimes.shtml#c1008For most people, if they were to proclaim a belief in fairies, they would be (rightly) ridiculed. Hamilton is lucky that one of the guards in the madhouse was kind enough to permit him usage of the Internet.]]>Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/18505938010/impostor-sending-out-dmca-notices-chaturbates-name-now-targeting-techdirt-urls.shtml#c378
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:46:19 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170815/18505938010/impostor-sending-out-dmca-notices-chaturbates-name-now-targeting-techdirt-urls.shtml#c378It's not unusual in porn to see a thing called "model regret". That is where a girl (or guy) who appeared nude or did porn regrets their choice later in life. They want to make those pictures and videos go away - or at least make it so that people cannot search Google for it.

The best result is to DMCA everything you see to Google, claim to the copyright holder, and watch them mow things down for you. Since Google seemingly makes no effort to assure that DMCA notices are valid and from the legal source, it's a pretty good way to get rid of things you don't like. If the site(s) in question aren't fast to answer Google, then the content gets removed from search and image search and "boom", you win.

Fake DMCA notices are a real problem, but do seem to represent a small percentage of the overall stream of things. It's not nice, but it's hard to avoid.]]>Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170816/22241738014/eff-pioneer-awards-chelsea-manning-annie-game-me.shtml#c214
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:33:29 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170816/22241738014/eff-pioneer-awards-chelsea-manning-annie-game-me.shtml#c214Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170814/15422237996/defending-hateful-speech-is-unpleasant-essential-even-when-violence-is-end-result.shtml#c4137
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:25:37 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170814/15422237996/defending-hateful-speech-is-unpleasant-essential-even-when-violence-is-end-result.shtml#c4137Normal people are not offended by speech they don't like, they just don't listen to.

Shiva's lawsuits happened precisely because he chose to be offended by speech he didn't like instead of ignoring it.

But you knew that already, Hamilton, because you and Shiva aren't normal.